Actually, a note on the "Islamic World." It's worth noting that the Islamic World includes Indonesia and Malaysia and a few other states outside the Middle East and Africa. Most of these nations don't really suffer from the sorts of pretensions you see in the Middle East. Rather, it seems that "Islamic" usually simply means Arab for common use. The problem, as I've said before (though not too strongly), isn't really Islam at all, but an intense Arab nationalism in which Islam is only some small part from which to derive a certain independent legitimacy (not unlike the function of the Anglican Church during the British Empire).